Nairobi  - A German national resident in Kenya is being held in connection with an attempt to illegally export live animals to Japan, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said Thursday.

The KWS said the unnamed German was arrested at midnight on a reptile farm in Eastern Kenya where he works as the director.

The man was arrested after KWS officials intercepted a consigment at Moi International Airport, Mombasa, late on Wednesday.

Nairobi - Kenya's former anti-corruption chief John Githongo returned home to speak at a public forum Wednesday three years after fleeing the East African nation amid fears for his life.

Githongo said he received threats after his investigation found that state contracts worth over one billion dollars were being awarded to fake companies in an affair that became known as the Anglo Leasing scandal.

Several senior government members resigned as a consequence of the investigation.

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Nairobi - Kenya and Tanzania were Thursday set to commemorate the 10th anniversary of deadly coordinated bomb attacks on United States embassies in their respective capital cities that killed over 200 and injured thousands.

In the Kenyan capital Nairobi, ceremonies were set to take place at the US embassy and at the site of the former embassy, now a downtown park, where 213 people - largely Kenyans - died.

Over 4,000 people were injured in the bomb attack.

A ceremony will be held in a memorial park in Dar es Salaam, where 11 where killed and 70 injured in the 1998 attack.

Nairobi - Kenya's Finance Minister Amos Kimunya resigned Tuesday over claims of corruption involving the sale of a luxury hotel in Nairobi to Libyan investors.

Nairobi - A Kenyan environmental group Wednesday blasted a plan to convert 200 square kilometres of c